June 3, 2014

Fact, fiction, truth and the "Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo" by Kent Nerburn

Tom Crann - Host, Euan Kerr - Reporter, Kent Nerburn - Interviewee

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For more than 20 years Bemidji writer Kent Nerburn has walked a fine line, trying to respectfully explore Native American culture as a white author. His books Neither Wolf nor Dog and Wolf at Twilight, tell of his complex relationship with a Lakota elder named Dan. He's now completed the trilogy with The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo, which delves into Native spirituality.

Nerburn says The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo was also the most difficult of the trilogy to write. The book tells of a repeating, haunting dream. This dream pulls the author back into the lives of his Lakota and Ojibwe friends in Minnesota and South Dakota.

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